We are starving! Where is our free food?
"Man we're out of toilet paper!"
Posted on 03/16/2020 8:23:23 PM PDT by hapnHal
Tourism is down in the ancient city of Lopburi, and the local monkeys are going ape. Rival gangs of macaques brawl in the streets of Thailand.
In one of the more unusual incidents being attributed to the new coronavirus outbreak, a turf war between dozens of street monkeys and temple monkeys broke out in Thailand's historic city of Lopburi on Thursday (March 12).
According to city residents, the furry fracas likely resulted from a sharp dip in tourism to the 800-year-old city — and thus a dip in free food offerings to thousands of local monkeys."It’s the summer so usually we see a lot of tourists, but now because of the outbreak there's so few that the markets are very quiet," Sasaluk Rattanachai, who posted a video of the brawl online, told Thai news site Khaosod English. "Not enough tourists come to leave food for the monkeys at [the temple].
Thousands of crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis) live in Lopburi and the nearby Phra Prang Sam Yot temple complex, which dates to the 13th century. Both groups are used to being fed human food by the hundreds of tourists who visit the site every day.
The city even hosts an annual Monkey Buffet Festival, where visitors construct elaborate towers of fruits and vegetables for the temple monkeys to feast on.
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Beggar monkeys hit the hardest?
The obvious question: would people behave differently in the same circumstances?
EBT cards turned off?
See!!! Thailand has its Democrats too!
If they shut down big truck travel watch any large city you’ll know in about 3 days.
It would depend upon the individual.
Human Beings are not Monkeys - (even though some act as if they were.)
Why this? We need medical supplies. Thailand is a major supplier of surgical gloves.
Manufacturer of ... - THAI RUBBER LATEX CORP. CO., LTD.The production facility located at Chonburi on the eastern seaboard of Thailand has annual installed capacity for output of over 350 million latex gloves. Using coagulant dipping process, ULP offers best quality latex gloves for medical examination and general or household use.
Q Are people afraid to work because of the monkeys?
We are starving! Where is our free food?
"Man we're out of toilet paper!"
Chonburi is nowhere near Lopburi.
banker monkeys hit the hardest?
That will be every major American city during the second week of the Great “Containment” Lockdown.
They’re disgusting animals the people in their communites feed and keep even as pets......their poop covers everything in their streets, on the food in their farm markets, and on their buildings. it’s everywhere!
In other words, it’s like San Francisco.
Was Westside Story just humans acting out monkey business?
Yep! That’s about the it of it..LOL
Those monkeys need to be sharply culled. The Thai may have to change the way they regard the monkeys. In the photos shown, they look like rats, invading every corner.
Like MacDonalds and shopping malls here in the States.
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